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| Acknowledgements | |
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| A note on referencing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is strategy? | |
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| Art of war or science of war, and technical definitions of 'strategy' | |
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| The articulation of different dimensions of Strategy | |
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| What is this book examining? | |
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| Long-term constants | |
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| Warfare and mindsets from Antiquity to the Middle Ages | |
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| Technology and warfare | |
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| Causes, aims and ethics of war from the Roman Empire to the late Middle Ages | |
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| Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe | |
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| Causes, aims and practice of war in early modern Europe | |
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| The ethics of war in early modern Europe | |
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| Themes in early thinking about Strategy | |
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| Sieges and static defences from Troy to Basra | |
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| Feudal levies, mercenaries or militia? | |
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| Battle avoidance or decisive battles? | |
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| Limited and unlimited wars | |
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| The enduring quest for eternal principles governing warfare | |
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| The Napoleonic paradigm and Total War | |
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| The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm | |
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| Causes of wars, world-views and war aims 1792-1914 | |
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| The influence of Social Darwinism and racism | |
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| The Napoleonic paradigm transformed: from total mobilisation to total war | |
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| The quest for total victory | |
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| The centrality of the battle | |
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| Annihilation of the enemy | |
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| The universal cult of the offensive | |
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| Total mobilisation or professional military elites? | |
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| Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm versus the culmination of Total War | |
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| Mars mechanised: the Napoleonic paradigm versus technological innovation | |
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| The dissenters: Corbett's limited wars and Jaur�s's defensive army | |
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| Lessons of the First World War | |
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| Strategy responses to the First World War | |
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| The Second World War: culmination of Total War | |
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| Naval and maritime Strategy | |
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| Long-term trends and early maritime Strategy | |
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| Strategy on land, at sea and in the air | |
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| Writing in the age of oar and sail | |
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| The age of steam to the First World War | |
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| The 'Anglo-Saxon' writers in the age of steam | |
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| French naval theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | |
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| Germany before the First World War | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The World Wars and their lessons for maritime Strategists | |
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| The First World War | |
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| British lessons | |
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| French lessons | |
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| The second-tier powers | |
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| US lessons from the Second World War | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Maritime Strategy in the nuclear age | |
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| The Cold War framework | |
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| Multiple roles for navies | |
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| Strategies for second-tier powers | |
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| Change of world-views and principles in conducting international affairs | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Air power and nuclear Strategy | |
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| War in the third dimension | |
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| Child and grandchild of naval Strategy | |
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| The beginnings of air power | |
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| Four schools of air power | |
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| The strategic or city bombing school | |
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| The military targets school: denial | |
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| The leadership targeting school: decapitation | |
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| The political signalling school: games theories | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Nuclear Strategy | |
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| Targets | |
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| Deterrence | |
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| Nuclear war-fighting Strategy | |
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| War taken to its absurd extreme | |
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| Asymmetric or 'small' wars | |
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| From partisan warfare to people's war | |
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| Two meanings of 'small war' | |
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| The mosquito and the lion: tactics | |
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| Hearts and minds I | |
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| Defence in depth | |
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| Counterinsurgency | |
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| The legal status of insurgents | |
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| Brutal repression | |
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| Hearts and minds II | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The quest for new paradigms after the World Wars | |
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| Wars without victories, victories without peace | |
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| The First World War as turning point? | |
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| Causes, conduct and ethics of wars since 1945 | |
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| The relinquishment of the Napoleonic paradigm | |
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| The return of limited wars | |
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| Coercion | |
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| Defensive defence and the relinquishment of victory | |
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| No end of history, the dialectic continues | |
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| The Napoleonic paradigm strikes back: Summers's Clausewitzian critique | |
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| Major war since 1945 | |
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| The return of small wars | |
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| Future developments | |
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| Epilogue: Strategy-making versus bureaucratic politics | |
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| Policy and Strategy in practice | |
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| The frailty of human logic | |
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| Summaries and conclusions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |